By Steve Rhodes
Bits, pieces.
1. United Welcomes Olympic Athletes To O’Hare With Super-Exciting Water Cannon Salute!
Next time try shooting the Spice Girls out of those cannons; then you’d have something.
2. Investors Would Like To Aim Water Cannons At Groupon.
And then themselves.
3. CPD Would Like To Aim Cannons At CeaseFire, No Water Necessary.
Rahm-backed publicity stunt won’t end well; might as well bring the Spice Girls in.
4. A 22-year-old Dallas woman was reportedly shot to death in her seventh-floor room at the fancy schmancy Whitehall Hotel on the Gold Coast.
5. “Army Spc. Lenette Tidwell of Chicago, an administrative specialist with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 405th Brigade Support Battalion out of North Riverside, Ill., carefully places chicken in hot oil under the watchful eye of Botswana Defense Force Head Chef Sgt. Gabobotswe Segoebe.”
6. Cubs fans rejoice at the misfortune of other.
7. Toronto wants to get back together with us.
But it’s also seeing three other cities.
8. Remembering Vonski.
A tribute to Chicago jazz legend Von Freeman.
9. The Cub Factor: Unwatchable.
You’re losing us, Theo.
10. Smell Like A Superhero.
Scent wars.
11. Chicagoetry: Groovy Times.
When the blowtorch breaks.
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The Beachwood Tip Line: Rats, cages.
Posted on August 14, 2012